Author Archives: Max West

Muslim Job Skills

“Kenya attack: 147 dead as Islamist gunmen target Christian students” is the headline in The Telegraph. The opening sentence of the piece reads: At least 147 people have been killed after Islamist terrorists attacked a Kenyan university, singling out Christian … Continue reading

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MSNBC Ratings Crater To All-Time Lows, FNC Tops Q1 Results

The implosion of MSNBC marches onward. Progress! Lean Forward! Talk about a tale of two cable news networks. With its 53rd consecutive quarter total audience win, Fox News Channel saw a 10% primetime rise among adults 25-54 in first-quarter 2015 … Continue reading

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Jellyfish – Sebrina, Paste and Plato (1993)

The short-lived band Jellyfish excelled in XTC/Dukes of Stratosphear styled nostalgia for Beatlesque, Beach Boys-y, baroque, pop psych. “Sebrina, Paste and Plato” is from their astonishingly good 1993 album Spilt Milk. All the components of the perfect pop song are … Continue reading

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DWB: Chris Rock

“Chris Rock Stopped by Police 3 Times So Far This Year — and He Has the Selfies to Prove It” is the click-bait headline by liberal Matt Wilstein (ahem): Earlier this week, comedian Chris Rock was pulled over by police … Continue reading

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Jim Norton: “Trevor Noah Isn’t the Problem. You Are.”

Today’s JAPCAT episode surrounds Trevor Noah, the newly anointed host of The Daily Show. (Steve Sailer has a comprehensive post on it today.) Jim Norton is a great comedian (whom I’ve seen live) and cultural conservative. Writing in Time, Norton … Continue reading

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The Birth of a Nation that Bans ‘The Birth of a Nation’

It’s the 100 anniversary of D.W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation. Meanwhile… It’s Slate. And it’s about stopping debate, not having one. Dorian Lynskey (ahem) writes “A Public Menace: How the fight to ban The Birth of a Nation … Continue reading

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Sailer: Latest in JAPCAT

Steve Sailer, with the latest in JAPCAT.

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I think I could turn and live with animals…

From Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself”: I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain’d, I stand and look at them long and long. They do not sweat and whine about their condition, They … Continue reading

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Jews and the New American Scene (1995)

Jews and the New American Scene is a 1995 book by Seymour Lipset & Earl Raab. Here is the book’s abstract: Will American Jews survive their success? Or will the United States’ uniquely hospitable environment lead inexorably to their assimilation … Continue reading

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JYT: 3/29/15

It’s Passover Seder time, so naturally, our favorite Jewish cultural outlet is on it:

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